oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (06/10/85)
In article <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP writes: >Which brings up an interesting puzzle: What other famous signs can be >amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters? >-- Somewhere on a highway between here and San Antonio is a "HELL" service station. (Should have been SHELL.) Needless to say, I didn't stop. -- - joel "vo" plutchak {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster "Take what I say in a different way and it's easy to say that this is all confusion."
cooper@pbsvax.DEC (Topher Cooper HLO2-3/M08 DTN225-5819) (06/12/85)
From Mad Magazine many years ago: YOU CAN be SUrE IF IT'S WESTINGHOUSE. Topher
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (06/12/85)
> Somewhere on a highway between here and San Antonio is a "HELL" service > station. > - joel "vo" plutchak In his memoirs ("Diplomat") Ambassador Thayer recalls that shortly after VE day in Finnland he was informed that he was about to be visited by a delegation from Hel. Thayer said it was nice of them to come all the way up. "Oh, no," he was told. "Hel is uphill from here." -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (06/13/85)
[% <-- dead cockatrice] > In article <1429@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP writes: > >Which brings up an interesting puzzle: What other famous signs can be > >amusingly corrupted by selective darkening of individual letters? > >-- > > Somewhere on a highway between here and San Antonio is a "HELL" service > station. (Should have been SHELL.) Needless to say, I didn't stop. About twenty years ago _Mad_ did this sort of thing to about a dozen famous slogans. Sorry, I don't know the exact issue, but the feature may have been anthologized. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...{rocksvax|decvax}!sunybcs!colonel
mmar@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Mitchell Marks) (06/16/85)
Once Martin Gardner in his Scientific American column published a complicated
diagram which he said contained a hidden Christmas message. It was something
like a complete graph on 5 nodes, with each arc labelled by a letter. They
didn't seem to go in order, nor display any clear pattern. The solution
was that the 25 labels included every letter but L -- hence, Noel.
--Mitch Marks @ UChicago
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